I'm Dais, and I'm new around here. I just thought I'd throw out a line and see what I get.

I've had a really rough couple of months emotionally, and I'm trying to think of ways of making myself feel better.

My father turned 90 last month, and asked all of us "kids" to go through a bunch of stuff in his house so we wouldn't need to do it, you know, later. Our cat disappeared for a week, and I woke up worrying about him every night. I was rear-ended just over a week ago while stopped to turn into my street, which pushed us into oncoming traffic, and we were hit again. I had my two little ones in the car. We are all physically fine, but it had me physically quaking for a week, and I'm still emotionally rattled. And I've just been down this winter in general. So.

What do you do to lift your spirits? Keep in mind I'm a stay-at-home mom, so travels to far away places are not really in my near future. Though movies and books (thanks, Neil!) take me away often.